Chinese Man Dons 33kg Of Bees In Record Bid...So that's where all our Bees have Gone!

A Chinese beekeeper has attempted to break a world record by covering his body with more than 300,000 bees.

She Ping, 32, concealed almost all of his body with 33.1kg of bees, which is estimated to be 331,000 of the creatures, in one hour in Chongqing Municipality in China's south west.

Reports said Mr She broke the world record, but there are doubts over whether he actually did.

Guinness World Records says Vipin Seth, from India, was covered by 61.4kg of bees in 2009.

It was calculated that 613,500 bees were on his body at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute in New Delhi.

But Mr She has managed to overtake another Chinese beekeeper's record at least, reports said.

Ruan Liangming set a record of 26.8kg in Jiangxi province in 2008.

Mr She, a third generation beekeeper, told reporters he did not wash himself for three days to better attract bees. Read More

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Public to see gambling game Frogopoly for the first time

AUSTRALIA'S World War II prisoners of war were very inventive at finding ways to amuse themselves and one of the results was the intriguingly-named pastime of Frogopoly.

The gambling board game was invented by West Australian-born Private Bill Marshall, a member of the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion and Middle East veteran captured by Japanese forces on Java.

Private Marshall died in 1968, aged 63, and his game remained in the possession of family members who offered it to the Australian War Memorial late last year.

It's now gone on display as an unusual example of prisoner craft.

"It is a really interesting addition," War Memorial historian Dr Lachlan Grant said. Read More

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Vacuum tubes could be used for super-fast public transport

Imagine hopping on the Tube in London on your way to work in the morning - and getting off near your office in New York City just three-quarters of an hour later.

If the designers of one revolutionary idea for the public transport of the future are right, that's just what we could be doing one day.

Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is an airless, frictionless form of transport which, its designers say, is safer, cheaper and quieter than trains or aeroplanes.

Using airless vacuum tubes, six-seat, 183kg passenger pods are designed to reach phenomenal speeds of up to 4,000mph (6,500kph), using far less energy than conventional transport methods.

That would allow passengers to travel from New York to Los Angeles in just 45 minutes, from New York to China in just two hours, or all the way round the world in six hours. Read More

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Shuttle zooms past Washington monuments

April 17 - Space shuttle Discovery makes its final journey, piggybacking on a 747 jet over the U.S. capital.

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North Koreans watch fireworks on founder's 100th birthday.

April 15 - Crowds gather along Pyongyang's river banks for a lavish fireworks display to celebrate the 100th birthday of North Korea founding leader Kim Il-sung, referred to as the 'Eternal President'. Hours before, Kim Il-sung's grandson Kim Jong-un, North Korea's new leader, delivered his first major public speech since taking power last December.

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EXCLUSIVE: North Korean Rocket Launch Footage

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Canadian lynx: Rare photo of cool cat crossing highway overpass

The Canadian lynx – a large cat native to the wilds of Canada – is generally elusive, and shies away from using highway-wildlife overpasses.

But one lynx bucked the trend, and the extraordinary event was captured on camera.
Using automatic motion-sensitive cameras, researchers in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, managed to capture the majestic-looking cat mid-commute.

The Canadian lynx was captured on March 28 as it crossed over the Trans-Canada Highway near Lake Louise. Read More

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Beirutopia: Could Lebanon's capital become a garden city?

(CNN) -- The legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon are the inspiration behind an ambitious plan to grow a rooftop forest high above Beirut's crowded streets.

The cityscape is currently overshadowed by concrete highrises, with parkland making up just 3% of Lebanon's capital, according to a study by the American University of Beirut.

The lack of greenery has contributed to poor air quality and trapped heat, among a host of other environmental issues, claims architect Wassim Melki. This led him to the the unconventional idea of greening over the city's rooftops.

"We want to cover the top of nearly every building in the city with trees," said Melki.

Challenging though it sounds, Melki's proposal does not involve complicated drainage systems or engineering. Read More

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Geminoid F: Robots in Motion

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